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and object of knowledge (TA, XI, 25b-28).
Meditation on Siva consists in the practitioner's
identification with the supreme Lord. "Seeing and worshipping day and
night the (own) body as full of Siva's beatific juice and filled with
the thirty-six categories, the celebrant identifies himself
with Siva and, being satisfied and pleased with his body made up of all
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things, he has himself the liiga (and) it is no longer necessary to
aspire after the (external) linga, faces, sacred places or external
rules" (TA, XV, 285-286). The ritual actions concern only those who have
not achieved the state obtained through this meditation.
The identification with Siva bears a particular
form in Saiva tantra, because it is considered that only the person who
is identical with the Lord can sacrifice to nim (MV, VIII, 52a seq.).
The identification made for this purpose is called the "inner sacrifice"
(manoy膩ga, antahkrtin). Performing this "sacrifice, the Sadnaka will
worship his own body, his vital breathings, the mind and the emptiness
- i.e. the deep subconscious structures -, thinking that all of them
are identical. This is made through the agency of the mandala of the
trident which represents the body and the breathing; the corresponding
mantras are projected on them (body and breath), being instruments of
"drilling" the subconscious. All these projections were detailed in the
chapters dealing with mandala and mantra. The basic power (膩dn膩rasakti,
and the four elements, i.e. earth, water, fire and wind which, being
the most subtle, potentially contains all the previous three, are project-
ed under the navel. ind forms the so-called bulb (kanda, where
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